My take on being proactive is that you don't just wait until people
report problems. Do your best to imagine disasters, project upcoming
issues, and identify bad trends, then try to solve them before they
happen. We basically write down _every_ idea that comes along that we
should do, and then prioritize as we go along. Sure, sometimes things
get rescheduled for three years, but eventually if you keep at it,
people start listening.
Chris Berry chris_berry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Systems Administrator JM Associates & Coast Business Service
"I want a list of all unplanned outages for the next six months!!!" -PHB
Can you give me an example? I'm not in the Public Ed field, but have been involved on the side for years, but when you say proactive, I'm not sure that we are on the same page.
For example, my solution to proactively deal with Virus Outbreaks is three levels of Anti-virus software, updated hourly, plus an SUS server (WUS is sooo cool, but beta+production=headaches) and a scripted MBSA scan weekly.
It takes me about 5 minutes a day to check on the virus updates, about 15 minutes a month to review SUS updates, and about an hour per Monday to review the MBSA logs. Comes down to a grand total of 6 hours a month...
Is that the kind of "plan" he is talking about?
Glenn Sullivan, MCSE+I MCDBA
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Posted At: Thursday, December 02, 2004 11:14 AM
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Conversation: [windows2000] Proactivity
Subject: [windows2000] Proactivity
Does anyone here (besides me) work in an educational/K-12 setting? Namely, public education...
My boss just sent an agenda out for a meeting, and the biggest part of it is determining how to be proactive about a lot of things around the district... while that's not a bad idea, I'm wondering how he's planning on pulling that off, when every knowledgeable person in my department has enough of a workload for three people. Going beyond that, I've worked with most of the other school districts in our area, and none of them appear to be proactive at all... and employees that I've spoken to in other districts agree.
<sigh> I know I probably shouldn't even send this message out, but what the hell... I haven't got anything to lose at this point.
Thoughts?
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